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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Arequipa in Peru


Earthquake location -16.2747S, -71.3157WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Arequipa in Peru. Unique identifier: us2000arh1. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000arh1. The epicenter was at a depth of 92.59 km (58 miles). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:26:08 / 12:26 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.3157 West, latitude -16.2747 South, depth = 92.59 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/09/17 / 2017-09-20 05:26:08 / September 20, 2017 @ 5:26 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Torata, Cocachacra, Lluta (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Arequipa (c. 841 100 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Cocachacra (c. 8 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Hacienda Huancane (c. 7 800 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Torata (c. 7 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Lluta (c. 6 000 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Yura (c. 5 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 27 km ENE of Arequipa, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.3157° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.2747° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 92.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km ENE of Arequipa, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-20 05:26:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-20 05:53:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 434 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.19 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000arh1 Id of event.
Event Code 2000arh1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000arh1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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